The Universal Dictionary

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handkerchief

['hæŋkəʧiːf]брит. / амер.

сущ.; мн.handkerchiefs, handkerchieves

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handkerchief

['hæŋkətʃɪf]

n

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Examples from texts

The widow received them—a small, distracted blonde, much reduced by night watching, with a red nose, her handkerchief before her mouth, and wearing a plaid cloak, with the collar turned up, as it was very cold in the room.

It was then that in the melancholy dusk of one evening I began rummaging for something in my little box, and suddenly in the corner I saw her blue cotton handkerchief; it had been lying there ever since I had thrust it away.

After a few more turns across and across the room, he left off pacing it; and withdrawing into a shadowy corner at some distance, where there was an easy chair, covered his head with a handkerchief, and composed himself to sleep.